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Here is your Study guide that I handed out in class, and here are the Essay outlines that I also handed out.
Paper Guidelines: You'll find this posted on Ms. Cocker's Writing page as well:
Tell the story of the French Revolution up through the execution of the king, concluding with a long final paragraph that evaluates the Revolution (what was good and what was bad about it? how do we see the bad ideas playing out?). Narrating well can be challenging; you must determine what are the main events, leave out of the story less important matters, and describe what you do include in enough detail that the story makes sense and flows logically. Ideally, you include an occasional comment in your narration that points forward to your evaluative conclusion.
The intro should be short and should include something evaluative. You could probably think of the evaluation part in terms of: "What lessons can we learn from the French Revolution?" What happens when you start with rebellion against authority? What happens when you reject God's authority, or when you have a view of freedom that says we should be able to do whatever we want with no restrictions? Remember whose idea of freedom that originally is: non serviam.
Papers: Dear class, after you receive you rough drafts back from Ms. Cocker, you can have until next week (Oct. 1) to revise and submit to me. Unless your birthday is on Oct. 1 (hmmm... who would that be?), in which case you can have until Oct. 3. :-)
However, you also have a literature paper due on Oct. 3, so please plan carefully and complete the history paper revision as soon as you can. I'll give an extra credit point to everyone who turns it in by Sept. 26 (Fri.).
A couple notes about your first papers.
Ms. Cocker will be posting a little info about what to do for your footnotes at this point. Remember, you don't have to do any additional research, so your footnotes will be coming from our textbook (Zehnder).
Here is a document that might provide a little bit of help for you. It has some questions that will be on your study guide with answers in outline format. It doesn't provide the evaluation (good/bad) that the paper requires of you, but at least it gives you some of the key ideas and connections. Feel free to email me questions and/or bring them to class on Wednesday. I also strongly suggest that if understanding the ideas has been challenging for you, reread the relevant sections in our textbook; particularly, look at the sections on Hobbes and on liberalism.
Welcome to the new year. Syllabus coming soon! :-) Meanwhile, here is the assignment for the first two days:
Wednesday, Sept. 10: Read Zehnder, Light to the Nations, introduction (pgs. 1-18) and complete the Questions for Review at the end of the chapter/intro (5 of them).
Read: pgs. 21-34
Friday: Read Zehnder, pgs. 34-38 and pgs. 41-52. Complete the Questions for Review on pg. 39 and questions 1-2 on pg. 68.
Your summer reading (Gheon's Secret of St. John Vianney) will be incorporated into the course in November, so you're welcome to delay until it's closer to that time (e.g., read over fall break), as long as you're sure that you will have time to complete the book (130 pages).
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